Rafe Fletcher: Broad-church Conservatism can’t handle AI

Rafe Fletcher: Broad-church Conservatism can’t handle AI

Rafe Fletcher is the founder of CWG. Dario Amodei kickstarted the recent peak in AI hype with a 20,000-word essay on the technology’s imminent dangers. Released just as his company Anthropic (which counts Rishi Sunak amongst its advisers) embarked on a new US$30 billion funding round, cynics may infer ulterior motives in Amodei’s elucidation of AI’s awesome powers. Nevertheless, its renewed prominence leaves governments responding to an age-old …